Clark and Lois made it to her room about the same time Connor and Chloe did. They did not understand what they were looking at, because it didn't appear as if anything had happened.
Little Cordy was crying so hard, that no sound was coming out of her mouth. Chloe hurried in and picked her up. Clark hurried over to Kyle, who was weeping openly. Lois just stared at him, unable to believe that the child was hers. Yet....she did know. Somehow it fit.
Lois looked away briefly. That made no sense! There was a logic to certain things, and pregnancy was one of them. Then again, Clark said that someone cast a spell on her. Who? Who would do something like this?
"What happened?" Clark asked Kyle. Kyle hiccuped, then began to try and speak.
"Cordy threw fire at me!" he cried, the tears running down his face. Connor gulped, then backed out of the room. Chloe peered after him.
"Connor? Connor, what is it?" she called. She then looked at Kyle. Actually, she looked behind Kyle, then hurried out of the room with Cordy. Lois looked at the wall behind Kyle. There were scorch marks on it. Somehow, Kyle came out of this unscathed.
"What's going on here?" she asked more of herself than anyone else. "How did he not get burned?"
"I think Connor knows the answer to that." Clark said, picking up Kyle. He looked at Lois.
"I'm going to take him back to Cordy's room for a nap. Then we need to talk."
Lois looked at him.
"The only thing I want to know, is how is it that I don't remember giving birth to him."
"Your pregnancy was kind of difficult."
Lois tilted her head.
"You've known this the whole time? This spell only worked on me and not you?"
"I'll explain everything once I put Kyle down, okay?" Clark said, touching his small fist. He walked down the hallway with him, while Lois looked around her room. Her eyes fell upon her laptop and she walked over to it, opening it and booting it up.
Clark returned a few minutes later.
"I know that this whole thing seems like a dream. I also know that you don't know our son very well...."
But Lois turned back to look at him.
"Neither do you. I want to know what kind of woman is raising my son."
Clark walked over to her.
"You're planning on checking out Faith?"
"Oh, you're damned right I am!"
Clark said nothing. Lois did a double take.
"No lecture?"
Clark folded his arms.
"No, I think you're right to do so. Faith and Dan Gordon adopted our son illegally. If they could do that, then there is no telling what else they were into."
Clark watched as Lois pulled up the California Public Records. Chloe appeared in the doorway and cleared her throat. Both Clark and Lois almost jumped!
"Hey, guys, uh, Connor wants to see you downstairs right away. He's got some big revelation he wants to share with us."
Clark looked at her sympathetically.
"You look nervous."
"I am. I mean there's a lot I don't know about Connor's background, but I've never seen him look so serious. I put Cordy down in Connor's and my room. I'm just afraid that this incident with the kids.....I don't know what I'm going to hear really."
Lois eyed her.
"Why don't you two go ahead? I'll be right down. I just have to finish looking something up, okay?"
Chloe stared at the computer.
"What is that?"
Clark grabbed Chloe's arm.
"We'll tell you later. Let's go back downstairs, okay?"
Clark closed Lois's door. Chloe eyed him.
"Did you tell her?"
"About her being Kyle's mother? Yes."
"Oh God! How is she taking it? She looks calm."
"I don't think it's entirely kicked in yet. But we'll deal with that later. Let's just find out what Connor knows."
Chloe sighed!
"Why do you have to put it like that? As if my husband is hiding something? He wanted to talk to me before this fire incident."
"Fine, Chloe." Clark said gently. "Let's just go and find out what's going on around here."
Chloe nodded, and they headed for the stairs.
Connor stood up, as Clark and Chloe entered the sitting room.
"How's Cordy?"
"Asleep?"
"Kyle's fine too." Clark said sarcastically.
"I'm concerned about Kyle too." Connor answered quickly, struggling to keep his patience with Kent. God! Why did he have to be here now? Yet, there was no getting around this. He would have to know.
"Where's Lois?" Connor asked.
"She'll be down in a minute." Clark answered tersely. "Why don't you get on with this big confession you have for us."
"Clark!" Chloe cried out.
"I'm sorry, Chloe. But if you just hadn't cast that first damned spell, Connor, none of us would be in the situations we're in."
Connor glared at him.
"That spell didn't make you cheat on Lana with Lois. You wanted to do that. So you might as well just sit down and listen."
"I'll stand, thanks." Clark replied coldly. Chloe did sit down. Connor joined her and picked up her hand.
"Do you remember when I told you that Angel didn't raise me?"
Chloe nodded.
"Yes, but you two are close now."
"Uh, yeah, we are. That's why when he finds out that I'm not really his son, he's going to be very disappointed....heartbroken even."
Clark eyed Connor, then sat down himself. What was going on here?"
Chloe pulled her hand from his.
"I don't understand. I thought you told me that your mother....a vampire, and Angel, were your biological parents?"
"Chloe....I was born in a hell dimension....I think. I mean I don't remember living anyplace else. I wasn't taken from Angel to go and live there. I was already there. I lived with my father for many years....time works at a different rate in that particular place. When Holz...."
"That's the man that stole Angel's son, right?" Chloe asked.
"Yes. Holz showed up when I was a baby. My father....my real father was a demon....my mother a witch. A very powerful one. He was also half human. He wanted me to live in this dimension. A plan was formed.....with Holz. I would pretend to be Angel's son and kill him."
"Wait a minute." Clark stopped them. "As sick is this whole thing sounds, there's still something missing. Angel thinks he has a son though. If this Holz man took his son, then where is he?"
"He ended up somewhere in Smallville, Clark. You may have even went to school with him. There was a portal that let into that town. That's why I came there in the first place. I was going to find him....I was going to tell Angel the truth. Anyway, there's more to this...."
Chloe stood up and walked over to the window. She couldn't believe what she was hearing.
But Clark didn't want to hear it!
"And you're telling us this now because?"
Connor, who's eyes were on Chloe's back, looked at Clark.
"Alright. Someone knows and is planning on telling Angel. I'm going to tell him myself."
"Well, good for you!" Clark snapped, disgusted by what he had heard already. "But none of this explains why Cordy...."
Clark then stopped talking for a moment. Chloe turned from the window to stare at them both.
"If you're part demon, then Cordy has powers now, doesn't she? She did throw fire at Kyle, didn't she?"
Connor took a deep breath, then produced a fireball in his hand! Chloe screamed and Clark ran over and stood in front of her. Connor hurled it at Clark and he shoved Chloe out of the way! She fell to the floor, as the fire scorched the window behind him.
Chloe slowly stood up. Connor began to walk over to her, but she put her hands up.
"Stay back! Stay away from me!" she cried. She then looked at Clark.
"What was that?! Why aren't you burned?"
"For the same reason that Kyle wasn't burned when Cordy did the same thing to him, Chloe." Connor explained. He then looked at Clark.
"It's time for a little truth from everyone, right Kent?"
Before Clark could answer, Lois came flying down the steps! She looked around quickly.
"Chloe, what the hell are you doing on the floor?" she asked, pulling her cousin up quickly.
"Lois, there's something you need to know..." Chloe began, half looking at her husband.
But Lois put a hand up!
"I already know what it is!"
"You do?" Connor asked, raising an eyebrow.
But Clark made his way over to her. Lois had been looking for information on Faith.
"What is it? What did you find out?" he asked.
"Oh just that the woman that stole our son is......A MURDERER!!!!" Lois almost screamed. She glared at Chloe and Connor accusingly.
"Tell me you didn't know?!"
Chloe put her hands up defensively. Hell, she was just finding out her husband and daughter had demon in them!
"Lois, I swear! Faith seems so normal!"
Lois wagged a finger at her.
"No she doesn't! At least she never did to me!"
"Lois, calm down." Clark said, grabbing her shoulders. "Who did she kill?"
"Some government official in a town called Sunnydale. I mean this place is in California too. She was serving 25 years to life when she just up and escaped one day! Kyle is not going back to live with her!"
Connor stepped forward.
"Lois, you have to calm down. Faith, I guess, was a different person back then."
Clark turned back to him.
"Great! So you knew this too? You're just full of surprises!"
Suddenly, the screech of a car could be heard! Lois and Clark hurried over to a window.
"It's Faith!" Clark yelled.
"Good!" Lois snapped. "The bitch stole my baby!"
Connor began to move forward.
"Lois, don't confront her! She's a vampire slayer.
Lois turned to look back at him.
"A what?"
"She has strength that's not normal for a woman to have." was all Connor was willing to say right now.
"Well, I'm not a vampire, and I'm not scared of her either!" Lois hissed. Clark jumped in front of her.
"Let's handle this together, okay?" he said, opening the door. But Lois moved around him, just as Faith, who had learned all from Angel by cellphone, punched Lois! She went flying back and fell onto the stairs! Faith then faced Clark.
"Come on, farm boy! Let's see what you've got!" Faith hissed, outraged. If either one of these fucks, thought they were taking her boy away from her, they had another thing coming!
"We don't want to hurt you." Clark said, half looking over at Lois. Lois was slowly getting up, with Chloe's help.
"Faith, back off of him!" Connor warned.
"Oh, now you're on his side?!" Faith yelled.
"I don't want to see you get hurt." Connor said calmly. "Back off of him, Faith. Let's sit down and talk about this."
Faith looked at Clark.
"Are you going to take that bitch and go?" she asked him.
"Lois and I have no intention of leaving our son with a murderer." Clark replied coolly. Faith punched him....and regretted it.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!" she screamed, reeling back and holding her fist. She had split it open. Punching this Clark character had been like punching a steel wall or something! What the hell?!
Connor ran outside to her. He then stopped. Was that....
There were police cars coming in the distance. Breathing heavily, Lois joined Clark at the door.
"That's right, bitch! I called the police. You're going back to prison." she yelled.
Chloe put her head in her hands and sank down on the stairs.